Maine: Gov.Baldacci to announce universal health care plan Monday

boston.com ^ | 5-4-03

[Grampa Dave]

Good, you just beat me to posting this:

Could it be that the same people who were behind Oregon's proposed universal health care plan (overwhelming defeated by the voters), are behind this one?

It would be really interesting to see how many of the radical gays/socialists and communists are moving from California, Oregon and Washington after they have destroyed our economies.

[GiveEmDubya]

Lesbian twosome? Only one? We must have seen at least three walking down the street when we were in Portland a year or two ago.

Maine has become, well, gay.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

Rep. Janet McLaughlin, D-Cape Elizabeth, who sponsored the newer bill, said Maine's law will be a model for other states

absolutely!!! any state looking for a roadmap to bankruptcy will now just have to pull up maines universal health care law!!!

[AmericaUnited]

Bye,bye Maine!!! Into the fiscal red-ink blankhole ala Kalifornia!

[AmericaUnited]

blankhole = blackhole

[Consort]

Good idea. It's the only way to prove failure. It will drain the states economy and require large increases in state and local taxes and fees. Everyone from the most Liberal to the most Conservative will milk the system for all they can because Liberals live off other peoples money, and Conservatives, understandably, they will want something for all the money they will have to fork over to pay for the program.

[Lizavetta]

About 13 percent of Maine's population, or about 165,000 people, lacks health insurance.

Whenever the politicians talk about the number of uninsured, I always have to wonder....

How many are uninsured because they are young and healthy and choose not to pay for insurance? Or who would rather spend their money on 'cool' things like cars, vacations, and dinners out? Or who won't buy insurance because they can't afford the $500/month Rolls Royce policies that cover lots of things and yet refuse to buy the $180/month catastrophic care policies because it 'doesn't seem worth it'?

There are many, many reasons why people remain uninsured, and lack of money is only one reason.

[Mamzelle]

re: Gay activists expressed surprise when a bill to extend inheritance rights and next-of-kin status to domestic partners failed to draw opposition at a legislative hearing. )))

Does this also apply to the heteros shacking up? Or would they have to "register" to create this defacto last will and testament?

What a mess in probate...

[2timothy3.16]

Thoughts?

Only in Maine could a dish washer in second rate Italian resturant get elected Governor.

And yes we have eaten there, but we have also eaten at a few Italian restaruants in Boston.

[Travis McGee]

Expect tens of Somali "refugees" and other grifters to head for Maine.

[Travis McGee]

Tens of THOUSANDS I meant to say.

[dts32041]

If I remmeber correctly the state of Me is running about a 1/2 b8llon deficet, and has approved all bond issues except one inthe past ten years.

Looks like Baldi, is trying to really get Maine to join with Canada.

I swear the boy is brain dead.

You are not making ends meet and wants to spend more.

He can only afford it by driving up taxes more, which will in the end drive out business an people.

He has obviously took the lessons of George Mitchell economics to to heart (10% luxury tax which drove out boat builders). Will be watching this with interest.

[Grampa Dave]

That we know of who are heading to Maine. When kidded about the cold winters, they just grin.

Their beach headers, who were probably bank rolled by this wave coming in, have done the job.

Now the well heeled grifters, are moving there.

We saw this migration to Ashland, Corvallis, Eugene and Portland Oregon in the late 1980's and first half of the 1990's. They and their liberal allies now control the mayor offices, city councils and many county political offices in those Oregon cities.

There is a mass exodus out of the DC area as they feel that GW will get re elected and the great government and non profit jobs are drying up for them. Interesting a lot in that area are moving to Austin, Texas.

[John Jorsett]

Anyone have any thoughts on this????

If California's MediCal is any measure, expect rampant fraud and runaway costs. And if I'm an employer, I'm thinking, "Yippee! I can drop that expensive coverage for my employees and they can get it from the state! Ka-ching."

I presume this guy is a Democrat. How's Maine's budget these days? Must have a lot of extra dough lying around to start a program like this.

[SheLion]

I'm sure these people will appreciate it:

Baldacci, Rep Tom Allen and the Catholic Charities are the ones responsible for bringing the influx of Somali's into Maine. Less then half of the Somali's have jobs. The rest are on welfare.

Just to give you some idea of how these Somali's are: one gal went to the shelter to get diapers for her infant. The Somali women got there first, and cleaned out every last diaper. There was none left for this gal and her infant.

The Somali's won't work between the hours of 10am and 2pm. What employer would hire someone like this? Not very many.

Maine is working with the farmers to grow chickens for the Somali's........

Here is the piece about Baldacci and Rep. Allen when they brought in the influx:

BALDACCI AND ALLEN SEEK FEDERAL ASSISTANCE TO ADDRESS INFLUX OF SOMALI IMMIGRANTS

[SheLion]

Is this, as the title states, a true universal health care plan and will the people of Maine be allowed to vote on it?

I doubt very much if the people of Maine will be able to vote on this.

[klute]

My fiancee lives in New Brunswick. I have been I-95 top to bottom more times than I can remember. It is a shame that such a wonderful state is subjected to this. My fiancee wants to escape socialism and get down here, while your Governor wants to adopt it. She is pregnant, and is terrified that she will have to have the baby in Canada. She has already had some issues that would be dealt with quickly in the US, but the Canadian doctors refuse to treat her. I'm trying to find her a doctor near Caribou or Van Buren. People who advocate socialized medicine should be required to live in canada one year.

[yankeedame]

People who advocate socialized medicine should be required to live in canada one year.

Or be required to use a Veteran's Hospital.

[dixiechick2000]

I asked because in Oregon, we voted on it. It went down in flames.

There is a group shopping this from state to state to see if they can get one to pass it. Hopefully, state law requires a vote in Maine.